Topher Grace—known for his fan edit of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and his team-up with Sam Raimi to finally murder Spider-Man movies—has a new fan edit combining all of the Seinfeld material from Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 7 to create a loose pseudo-episode. It’s the Seinfeld reunion the world never needed, shorn of all the funny Curb Your Enthusiasm scenes that originally made it bearable.
‘Seinfeld’ Reunion Episode
I edited all the Seinfeld scenes from Curb season 7 into one episode. It’s more like a radio play, but if you sew...
Posted by Topher Grace on Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The Seinfeld “reunion episode” runs a little over nine minutes and mostly deals with George Costanza’s efforts to get back the millions his wife took in their original divorce.
Though the Seinfeld reunion season of Curb Your Enthusiasm was a highlight for the series, the actual Seinfeld episode at its center feels fusty, with jokes about iPhone apps, rude phone etiquette and that oh-so-90’s capacity for George Costanza to date someone tremendously more attractive, intelligent, and funny than him. Plus, it’s hung up on the old Superman movie continuity, with those damnable crystals that Bryan Singer tried to drag into the modern day.
While Larry David’s cultural currency is more valuable than ever, thanks to a spot-on Bernie Sanders impersonation, Jerry Seinfeld’s continued relevance is far more questionable. The cultural critiques in this reunion fan edit feel more crotchety than trenchant at this point. Sometimes you just can’t go home again.
Now how about a Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9?
